Jessica Pegula and Anna Blinkova will square off in the 2nd round of the China Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on LOTUS. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jessica Pegula who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Jessica Pegula is the pick to win this match.
Jessica Pegula -> 1.126
Anna Blinkova -> 6.1
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Prediction and head to head Jessica Pegula vs. Anna Blinkova
This will be the 2nd time that Jessica Pegula and Anna Blinkova play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Pegula (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they played, Pegula won 6-2 6-0 in the 2nd round in Charleston back in April 2023.
Highlights Jessica Pegula vs Anna Blinkova – Charleston 05-April-2023
Jessica Pegula
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 38-13 | 28-8 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
2023 | 59-18 | 45-12 | 8-4 | 0-0 | 6-2 | 0-0 |
2022 | 42-21 | 28-15 | 11-4 | 1-1 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
2021 | 39-19 | 29-12 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
2020 | 17-9 | 16-7 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 4, Jessica will start her run in Beijing after she played her last match in Tokyo where she lost 7-5 6-1 to Kudermetova in the final on the 1st of October.
Pegula has an aggregate 49-16 win-loss record in 2023, 35-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the year was winning the title in Australia where she overcame Martina Trevisan in the final 6-4 6-2 and in Montreal where she defeated Liudmila Samsonova in the final 6-1 6-0.
Talking about her overall career, Jessica has an overall 384-228 record. She has a positive 212-115 record on hard.
Previously in Beijing
Previously, her best result was reaching the 1st round in 2019. See her history.
Anna Blinkova
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 14-27 | 9-13 | 2-8 | 1-2 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
2023 | 33-28 | 15-15 | 10-7 | 3-3 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
2022 | 46-29 | 7-8 | 16-10 | 21-7 | 1-3 | 1-1 |
2021 | 15-24 | 5-11 | 6-6 | 2-4 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
2020 | 9-14 | 4-10 | 4-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 39, Anna got to the 2nd round after beating Donna Vekic 6-3 7-5.
In the 1st round, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Vekic (6-3 7-5). During the match Blinkova scored 74 points vs Vekic’s 67. Anna was pretty aggressive to blast 21 winners.
About the serving games, Blinkova made 9 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Anna Blinkova lost the serve 3 times and she saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Blinkova put 48% of her first serves in, winning 68% (21/31) of the points behind her 1st serve and 45% (15/33) on the 2nd serve. The Russian broke Vekic 6 times after converting 50% of her break points (6/12).
Blinkova’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in Strasbourg.
The Russian has an overall 27-24 win-loss record in 2023, 12-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Beijing
- Magda LinetteLinette – Jennifer BradyBrady (3-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova – Petra KvitovaKvitova (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Yue YuanYuan (2-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Anhelina KalininaKalinina – Daria SavilleSaville (6-2 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Linda NoskovaNoskova (w/o) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Katie BoulterBoulter (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tatjana MariaMaria – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Ons JabeurJabeur (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Maria SakkariSakkari – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Xin Yu WangYu Wang – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Lesya TsurenkoTsurenko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Petra MarticMartic – Cori GauffGauff (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Caroline GarciaGarcia (3-1) – H2H and prediction
- Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (0-0) – H2H and prediction